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An Investigation of the Effect of Mephenesin Carbamate (Tolseram) on Normal Hearing Thresholds as Determined by the Conditioned Psychogalvanic Skin Response and Conventional Pure-Tone Audiometry

RAYMOND B. STRAUSS, Ph.D

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1958;67(3):354-363.

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Introduction

With the development of the pure-tone audiometer has come an improved and increasingly more reliable hearing test technique for evaluating the auditory acuity of the hard of hearing adult. At the same time, the inadequateness and unreliability of this means of testing the hearing of infants, children, malingerers, and persons with psychogenic deafness has been acknowledged.¹

The principal weakness of the conventional audiometric technique for young children lies in its dependency upon purely subjective responses and the conscious cooperation of the child. Frequently, he cannot be made to understand or comprehend what he is supposed to do. This is especially true if the child has a language problem. It is apparent, moreover, that to the young child, pure-tone stimuli tend to be meaningless, uninteresting, and easily ignored. His attention span is short. Having him remain still with minimal movement for as long as half an hour is virtually . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cleveland

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 24, 1957.

This article is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Florida and the M.D. degree at Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The facilities for testing were provided by the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center.

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